However, cargo has been a lifeline for the aviation industry during COVID-19. Before the pandemic, cargo typically made up around 12 percent of the sector’s total revenue; that percentage tripled last year. Based on data from the Airline Analyst, only...
This paper describes how these changes are reshaping the airline industry during COVID-19, explains why short lead times for bookings and uncertainty in demand volumes are expected to remain after COVID-19, and describes how the airline industry is innovating and developing new operations research ...
COVID-19 has drastically decreased airline traffic across all routes, but the volume of connecting passengers has been among the hardest hit. Questions have arisen as to whether the current crisis will lead to structural changes within the industry. On the network side, this includes a d...
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(SARS) and COVID-19 are contagious diseases that threaten human life. Risks like these disrupt business operations in infected countries, irrespective of the industry. Given the contagiousness of COVID-19, infected countries adopted various measures to limit contact (such as stopping unnecessary ...
but none quite as rapid and severe as the one posed by the spread of COVID-19. One constant during uncertainty shocks and industry downturns is that airline labor bears the brunt of the decline. As the industry reduces capacity amid the increase in travel restrictions, the post-stimulus impac...
A recent study documents the impact of COVID-19 on employment in the airline industry (Sobieralski, 2020), but the impact of the COVID-19 on airline stock prices has not yet been investigated. In order to fill this gap, we aim to examine the airline stock returns during the spread of...
Using the DB1B data between 2018 and 2021, this paper analyzes the impacts of COVID-19 on price dispersion in the airline industry and finds supportive evidence of a lower price dispersion during the global pandemic. These results entail some interesting managerial implications. As the travel ind...
After flying into the financial turbulence of the Covid pandemic, the airline sector expects passenger traffic to take off despite concerns about the industry's impact on climate change.
Flyr is a Norwegian start-up airline set to launch in the first half of 2021. The team tells CNN Travel why they are confident they will succeed, despite the current state of the aviation industry.